N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law Section 21-0507
Enforcement proceedings

Whenever the interstate environmental commission shall be of the opinion that any person, association or corporation, municipal or otherwise, within the district is failing or omitting, or about to fail or omit to do anything required of it by its order or by the laws governing the control or elimination of pollution of the waters of the district, or is doing or is about to do anything, or permitting or about to permit anything to be done contrary to or in violation of such orders or such laws, or the provisions of the compact, it may direct its legal representative to commence an action or a proceeding in the name of the interstate environmental commission in an appropriate court having jurisdiction for the purpose of having such violations or threatened violations stopped and prevented. Such an action or proceeding when directed against any person, firm, association, corporation, municipal or otherwise, within the state may be brought in the supreme court of this state and the said court shall have and is hereby given the necessary and appropriate jurisdiction to determine such action or proceeding upon the merits and/or to grant any relief appropriate to the case.

Source: Section 21-0507 — Enforcement proceedings, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ENV/21-0507 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 27, 2024).

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Sep. 22, 2014

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